Madness & Misanthropy

Bellevue

By Ivana Dobrakovová (Translated by Julia & Peter Sherwood)

Big Love

By Balla (Translated by Julia & Peter Sherwood)

From the September 2019 Issue

Artists & Lovers

The Europeans: Three Lives and the Making of a Cosmopolitan Culture

By Orlando Figes

From the August 1999 Issue

Not Undiscovered

The Undiscovered Chekhov: Thirty-Eight New Stories

By Translated and Edited by Peter Constantine

From the March 1999 Issue

An Explanation at Last for his Tragic End

Pushkin's Button

By Serena Vitale (Translated by Ann Goldstein and Jon Rothschild)

From the March 2019 Issue

When Knowledge Met Power

Catherine & Diderot: The Empress, the Philosopher, and the Fate of the Enlightenment

By Robert Zaretsky

From the February 2019 Issue

Griboyedov’s Last Journey

Death of the Vazir-Mukhtar

By Yuri Tynianov (Translated by Susan Causey)

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From the December 2018 Issue

Yours Radically

Greetings From the Barricades: Revolutionary Postcards in Imperial Russia

By Tobie Mathew

From the September 2018 Issue

Losing Lienka

Fleeting Snow

By Pavel Vilikovsky (Translated by Julia & Peter Sherwood)

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From the March 2018 Issue

In Search of Raskolnikov

From the November 2017 Issue

A Dictator’s Progress

Stalin, Vol II: Waiting for Hitler, 1928–1941

By Stephen Kotkin

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From the September 2017 Issue

Emptying the Bread Basket

Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine

By Anne Applebaum

From the August 2017 Issue

Party Walls

The House of Government: A Saga of the Russian Revolution

By Yuri Slezkine

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From the July 2017 Issue

Open Season

Moscow 1956: The Silenced Spring

By Kathleen E Smith

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From the April 2017 Issue

Witness to a Century

Miłosz: A Biography

By Andrzej Franaszek (Edited & translated by Aleksandra & Michael Parker)

From the March 2017 Issue

The Boy Scout & the Butcher

The Last of the Tsars: Nicholas II and the Russian Revolution

By Robert Service

Lenin the Dictator: An Intimate Portrait

By Victor Sebestyen

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From the February 2017 Issue

One Shift in the Life of…

The Diary of a Gulag Prison Guard

By Ivan Chistyakov (Translated by Arch Tait)

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From the November 2016 Issue

The Monk behind the Myth

Rasputin

By Douglas Smith

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From the October 2016 Issue

Trial & Terror

Stalin and the Scientists: A History of Triumph and Tragedy 1905–1953

By Simon Ings

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From the July 2016 Issue

Black Sea Battleground

Crimea: A History

By Neil Kent

The Crimean Tatars: From Soviet Genocide to Putin’s Conquest

By Brian Glyn Williams

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From the June 2016 Issue

Philosophers & Murderers

Black Wind, White Snow: The Rise of Russia’s New Nationalism

By Charles Clover

A Very Expensive Poison: The Definitive Story of the Murder of Litvinenko and Russia’s War with the West

By Luke Harding

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